What's the salary range?

Elastic lists $133,100–$210,600 for this role.

How much experience is required?

At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer - Platform Billing Experience role.

What's the tech stack?

Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, GCP, React.

What seniority level is this role?

Elastic targets senior candidates for this position.

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Billing Experience at Elastic

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Senior Software Engineer will focus on enhancing the customer-facing billing systems, including public APIs and console features, to improve user experience and reliability. Key skills include backend and full-stack development, with a strong emphasis on API management and cloud infrastructure knowledge. This position is ideal for experienced engineers with a background in customer-facing products and a solid grasp of distributed systems. The team operates in a global, distributed environment, emphasizing collaboration across various technical disciplines.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 23, 2026. Last confirmed on Elastic's careers page October 23, 2026.
Salary band is below the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
Starts above 6% of 120 comparable senior backend roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $174,915 across 54 companies). See AWS salary trends
AWS appears in 32.4% of 512 comparable senior backend roles in United States; React appears in 10.9% of 512 comparable senior backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

What's the salary range?: Elastic lists $133,100–$210,600 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Software Engineer - Platform Billing Experience role.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Azure, GCP, React.
What seniority level is this role?: Elastic targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Senior Software Engineer - Platform Billing Experience role at Elastic.

From the original posting

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What Is The Role :

Billing powers Elastic's Cloud business. It runs across AWS, GCP, and Azure in over 50 regions. We oversee usage-based metering, consumption billing, and marketplace integrations at global scale.

The Billing Experience team owns the customer-facing layer of our billing systems. We build and maintain the public and internal APIs, as well as the billing and account pages within Elastic Cloud consoles. Our goal is to make it easy for customers and internal teams to understand and manage their billing data.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Billing Experience team. You will take ownership of key APIs and console features, solve complex problems with minimal guidance, and help raise the bar for engineering quality on the team. You will work closely with Product, Design, SRE, and Cloud Infrastructure teams.

What You Will Be Doing :

Own and improve public and internal billing APIs — focusing on reliability, correctness, and developer experience.
Design and build full-stack features in Elastic Cloud consoles, from backend services to billing and account UIs.
Lead small to medium projects end-to-end — from design to delivery — within the team.
Contribute to API design decisions: versioning, contracts, and consistency across consumers.
Improve observability and reliability of billing-facing services through better monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
Participate in code and design reviews. Be a trusted reviewer for your area of the stack.
Mentor junior engineers through feedback, pairing, and design discussions.
Work with Product and Tech Leads to help shape priorities and technical direction.
Take part in on-call rotations and contribute to production readiness.

What You Bring :

5+ years in backend or full-stack engineering, with solid experience building and maintaining APIs.
Experience working on customer-facing or developer-facing products at scale.
Solid understanding of distributed systems and how to build for reliability and scale.
Background in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) — networking, monitoring, and deployment basics.
Experience with frontend technologies used in dashboards or console products is a plus (React or similar).
Strong judgment in technical trade-offs. You can work through ambiguous problems and deliver well-thought-out solutions.
Good communication skills. You write clearly and speak up in discussions to share your perspective.
Experience with SaaS billing, metering, or financial systems is a plus.
Comfortable working in a global, distributed, async environment.
Track record of using AI to speed up development, debug complex systems, and improve code quality — while owning the outcomes.
Eligible to work in Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments.

Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

$133,100—$210,600 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:

$159,900—$252,900 USD

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